Washington · Nonprofit
KiloWatts For Humanity
KiloWatts For Humanity (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,456 to it, the largest being WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE ($190,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $212k
What KiloWatts For Humanity does
Mission
MISSION: To improve peoples lives by providing access to electricity and fostering the development of sustainable businesses. Our volunteers offer mentorship and resources to empower less economically developed communities for lasting change. ACHIEVEMENTS: Electricity Access Program: KWH advanced rural electrification in Zambia through construction, expansion, and operational support community energy kiosks. In 2025, KWH had an energy kiosk constructed in the off-grid Zambian village of Ntanga (for solar installation in 2026) and had a partner organization begin community engagement and training in the village of Libala. KWH further support the communities we are involved in through expanded appliances purchases, including four grain mills. Education Program: KWH continued its partnership with Seattle University by sponsoring a senior design project focused on improving solar-system design tools for rural energy kiosks. The organization funded the project and provided volunteer mentorship to a team of Throughout 2025, student made prograss on prototype development and integration potential for future kiosk planning. This program strengthened KWHs edcuational missiong while…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$35,280 spentof which $10,439 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,280.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $169k to $212k (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
93% of KiloWatts For Humanity’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $9k → $3k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KiloWatts For Humanity’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KiloWatts For Humanity leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 86% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of KiloWatts For Humanity's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
KiloWatts For Humanity draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
KiloWatts For Humanity runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like KiloWatts For Humanity
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KiloWatts For Humanity: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KiloWatts For Humanity?
- KiloWatts For Humanity (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,456 to it, the largest being WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE ($190,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KiloWatts For Humanity have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $236,456 in grants to KiloWatts For Humanity, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KiloWatts For Humanity?
- WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KiloWatts For Humanity find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing